Mobile‐Bed Friction at High Shear Stress
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 115, Issue 6
Abstract
Analysis demonstrates, and experiments confirm that the frictional behavior of mobile beds at high shear stress is inherently different from either of the two classical cases—smooth wall and rough wall. For those two cases, the characteristic lengths for friction are based on viscosity and grain size, respectively. For the new mobile-bed friction relation this length varies with the thickness of the shear layer occupied by the moving bed-load particles. This thickness is itself directly related to shear stress, giving rise to the prediction that at high shear stress (Shields ordinate greater than unity) the effective roughness ratio (effective roughness/particle diameter) should be approximately five times the Shields ordinate. The high-shear-stress experimental results show a variation in accord with the prediction.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 115 • Issue 6 • June 1989
Pages: 825 - 830
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Copyright © 1989 ASCE.
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Published online: Jun 1, 1989
Published in print: Jun 1989
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